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Instead, I bet they are focused on the view out the window, their rear ends, the airspeed indicator and their significant experience and maybe...just maybe...mentally listening for a stall warning...Ok, fine, I'll give you and Gabe a concession that maybe they might give the AOA indicator a quick glance...

===> Too slow flight AoA: You should not be flying in this zone, however, although this is not normal operation, you are still ok and you can operate here (for example, if you are in a windshear escape maneuver, you can stay in this zone, or during the flare or initial lift-off you can be temporarily here while you bleed speed for touchdown or build speed to climb speed)

No, seriously, I'm not kidding, this is not okay

===> Stall warning. You are not authorized to fly in this regime. You are outside the approved envelope and are required to take corrective action.

You're dead ===> You are stalled.

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REALLY GOOD pilots don't try to make their airplanes do things they're incapable of.

Sometimes they do. The Elmendorf C-17 Air Force investigation called it "overconfidence" and "misplaced motivation". The investigation found that the pilot's overconfidence in executing an aggressive right-turn maneuver led to a low-altitude stall and subsequent crash, despite the warnings correctly provided by the aircraft's stall-warning system, to which neither the pilot nor any other crew member responded effectively.

Even good pilots are sometimes vulnerable to overconfidence and "misplaced motivation"...

It's actually pretty ironic that 3 of the 5 colored regions on that gauge are marked with speeds, even though the gauge is there to provide better information that should relieve the pilot from having to view stall as something that is only speed-dependent.